EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
2007 - FOOL'S GOLD (feature length currently in pre-production) - based on the theme of greed
2005 - NY(see) - Sound; Color; Time: 68 Minutes
What does it mean to be an artist-immigrant here at this time after 9/11, when the whole world is on the verge of major change? Three immigrant artists, Mara Wave, John Spinks, Kim Su Theiler, intersect with their own work; New York's cityscapes and White's performative actions. The digital montage, part home-movie, part city-symphony, straddles the borders of an autobiographical document and documentary movie-making, to impart the archetype of "the artist"
2001 - TRAVELING with NEPTUNE: PORTRAIT of my FATHER - Sound; Color; Time: 8 Minutes
My father describes his experiences as a WWII US Navy Radioman, who witnessed the Bikini Bomb Tests and underwent the "Initiation into the Kingdom of Neptune" hazing ritual for sailors.

VIDEO INSTALLATION
2008 - 4 Color Field - Silent; Color; Time: 8.44 Minute looped. - Changing colors; striped imagery
Cloud Tondo - Silent; Color; Time: 3.10 Minute looped. - Clouds digitally colored imagery
Kaleidoscope Tondo - Silent; Color; Time: 4.04 Minute looped. - Kaleidoscope imagery
2007 - AMERICAN DIASPORA 2 - Sound; Color; Time: 6.00 Minute looped
Hybrid Wall Hanging - framed drawing/video assemblage
2006 - AMERICAN DIASPORA - Sound; Color; Time: 6.00 Minute looped
Leaving, arriving imagery projected onto a portrait painting
CHINESE ELEMENTS: Earth, Water, Wood, Fire
The 5 elements are experienced as "powers" of nature, each with their own distinct qualities
en Invierno (in Winter) - Sound; Color; Time: 5.39 Minutes
a phantasmagorical snow storm outside my parents the suburban home combines documented reality with a hint of not too distant future loss looming on her horizon

2005 - MY SPACE: - Sound: Thomas Parker Williams; Text: Lili White; Color; Time: 6.27 minutes A triad made in response to war, the figurative changes into the abstract.
CLOUDGATE: - Silent; Color; Time: 3.07 minutes Made to be projected onto a skyscraper or city sidewalk
WATER GODDESS, aka, HOMELESS - Silent; Color; Time: 1:30 minute - water droplets projected onto building shapes, apparition appears.

2003 - CORNER PIECE - Silent; Color; Time: 3 minutes - Reflected images inside a waist-high box.
2001 - TRAVELING with NEPTUNE - Gallery Installation: video projected onto assembled objects

VIDEO SHORTS
2008 - "S" - Sound; Color; Time: 1:10 minutes
A hallucinogenic meditation on a "S" .
Striking Gold - Sound; Color; Time: 0:51 minutes
Visual haiku for Spring
Curly Q - Silent; Color; Time: 11:24 minutes
Salute to structuralist cinema.
11th hour - Sound; Color; Time: 2:41 minutes
Waiting along with a horrific encounter.
Canyons to the Stars - Sound; Color; Time: 3:49 minutes
Brice breaks into the universe.
Another Trip - Sound; Color; Time: 2:54 minutes
In and out of the trailer.
Got'cha - Sound; Color; Time: 3:31 minutes
Real Raven versus drawn bird.

2007 - SAILING to BYZANTIUM - Sound; Color; Time: 12:05 minutes
The soundtrack: My father tape recorded my mother, her parents, and sister and us kids as we recited poems. The visual: simultaneously in the two grand-mother lands at once - a Slovenian town square at sunset, and in Ireland rummaging through the other's forgotten property. Title is from Yeats' poem.

WESTERN - Sound; Color; voiceover and documentary reportage: Margot Niederland; Time: 13:21 minutes
The American morality tale: Voiceover about disguising oneself as an soldier; appropriated images from Western TV and American movies (JACK SLADE, TOMBSTONE, GUNFIGHT at the OK CORRAL, HOUR of the GUN, The RIFELMAN) a motel room, and home movies of Western locals, including Glenwood Springs, CO (grave of Doc Holliday) and Tombstone AZ (shoot out at the OK corral)

NO FIT PLACE - Sound; Color; Time: 2.14 minutes
The portrait: regarding emotions: on a dark place
Sub Rosa - Sound; Color; Time: 3.53 minutes
The portrait: regarding emotions: on joy

2006 - THE GROUND FROM UNDERNEATH - Sound; Color; Time: 2.18 minutes
The portrait: regarding emotions: on a sense of loss
GOODBYE SKY GOODBYE EARTH - Sound; Color; Time: 4.40 minutes
A sunset, a TV on the fritz in the desert, a Hi8 video camera breaking down - I took advantage of them all to make this edited-in-the-camera piece, soundtrack and obvious visual element was added later.
APART - Sound; Color; Time: 4.46 minutes
A variation on GOODBYE SKY GOODBYE EARTH
WORDS on PEACEPIECE - sound: Thomas Parker Williams; Text: Lili White; Color; Time: 2.27 minutes Condensed form of PEACEPIECE. Time: 1.00 minutes
PEACEPIECE - Sound: Thomas Parker Williams; Text: Lili White; Color; Time: 2.27 minutes
Theatrical composition with spoken text
WATER GODDESS - sound: Thomas Parker Williams; color; Time: 1.00 minute
Now you see her, now you don't.
THE BALLOON GARDEN - Silent; Color; Time: 6.30 minutes
layered lyrical composite traveling between earth and sky
TREASURE - Sound: Thomas Parker Williams; Color; Time: 3:30 minutes
Searching for water while building a city on a beach. An ominous mood prevails with images of Las Vegas; one of its now defunct neighboring desert water springs; and the Hoover Dam present

2005 - I SEA - Color; silent; Time: 1:00 minute Both the human eye and the sea are composed of the same elements
I SEE CHINA - Silent; Color; Time: 1:00 minute Using American and Chinese numerals, and stick-like elements based in Chinese calligraphy strokes the seconds of a minute are counted up.
RENASCENCE - Silent; Color; Time: 1:18 minutes Influenced by portraits by Hans Membling; a visual etymology of the Chinese character for "view" (that joins the characters for "eye" and "light" together), asking: does the eye see or the brain?

2003 - DEPARTURE - Music: Chopin, Delibes, Shinto Ceremony; Afro-American Fold Songs; Irish Sea Shanty; Color; Time: 10:20 Minutes
Arriving at a sense of balance and harmony in the execution of calligraphy is similar to the struggle of Homo sapiens to maintain equilibrium as they walk upright; departing from the realm of the strictly animal, ushering in human consciousness, heading toward a higher evolution. The calligraphic form of the departure ideogram is reflected in the world objects of a snake and cattle gates.

2002 - SNAKE SCALES or THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES - Music: Sun Ra Arkestra; Color;
Time: 13 Minutes
High contrast snake imagery toys with the concept of the "edge" or "frame" that occurs in the 2-D image.

2001 - TRAVELING with NEPTUNE: PORTRAIT of my FATHER - Sound; Color; Time: 14 Minutes
Documentary footage of my father describing his experiences as a WWII US Navy Radioman, who witnessed the Bikini Bomb Tests and who underwent the "Initiation into the Kingdom of Neptune" hazing ritual for sailors. Music: Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, JSBach

1999 - JUST FOR MY FRIENDS - Sound: "Last Thought on Woody Guthrie" poem by Bob Dylan; Color;
Time: 7:07 minutes
Lili White maps the space of her Gallery Room Installation, "Secret Language," where glyphs change into written language.

1998 - PETALS & THORNS - Music: Nicholas Kodaly & Bela Bartok; Color; Time: 9:07 Minutes
The performer changes her hat /mind in the fairy tale narrative that asks "what is real, and what is not?"

1997 - THE HOUSE OF THE GENTLE - Sound; Color; Time: 30:00 Minutes Total - comprised of shorter segments of 2 to 10 minutes each
The artist performs her interpretations of eight hexagrams from the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, that describes sixty-four different but archetypal forms of energy. The "gentle" refer to wood or the wind, both gentle yet penetrating essential forces.

1996 - The GIFT OF THE DREAM: Prelude - Sound; Color; Time: 10:10 Minutes
Text from medieval alchemical writings; images based upon dreams experienced while sleeping in: Chaco Culture, an Anasazi city; Canyon de Chelly, home of the natural monument to Spider Woman, mythical creator of the world; and Shofuso, the Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia.

DV & Super-8 Film Hybrid
2006 - She Dreams the World - Music: Peace Creeps; Super-8 Film re-edited with computer; Time: 6:00 Minutes She who "dreams the world" ushers in psychic counterparts: a feminine "shadow" and "animus" figure of Dionysian proportions who travel through mythic terrain of death and rebirth. Super-8 Film
1981 - Careering - Music: Public Image Ltd; Color; Time: 3:00 Minutes
1980 - Portrait - Music: Public Image Ltd; Color; Time: 3:00 Minutes
Ig 79 - Music: Iggy Pop; Color; Time: 3:00 Minutes Iggy Pop at Philadelphia's HOT CLUB
1979 - Revolve/er - Music: various Punk Bands; Color; Time: 3:00 Minutes